Heinrich von Taube

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Heinrich von Taube (* 23. February 1592 in Tallinn , Sweden ; † 24. July 1666 in Dresden ) was a court marshal and chief chamberlain at the Saxon court, and Amtshauptmann and landowner in Saxony . He came from the German-Estonian noble family of the von Taube .

origin

The von Taubes family came from a German-Baltic knight dynasty, which was based in and around Reval, today's Tallinn in Estonia.In the course of the wars between Sweden and Poland , some family members left their ancestral homeland in 1602 and some of them returned in 1604.

Together with those who also come from the Taube family

the family was one of the most important people at the court of the Electors of Saxony, they achieved respected and influential positions.

Career

In 1606 Heinrich von T. accompanied his father Ludwig to the Swedish court , where he learned the duties of court servants. As a page he came into the care of the Swedish court marshal Heinrich von Horn . On his behalf, he was assigned to the henchman of the Count Palatinate of Pfalz-Neuburg and traveled with him to the Palatine court. Then he was assigned to the Brandenburg Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm von Goldstein and visited Pomerania , Prussia and the Mark Brandenburg , after which he returned to the Palatine court. In 1609 he traveled again with Goldstein to the Brandenburg court in Ansbach and then he was assigned to Annaburg as a companion to Margrave Joachim Ernst of Brandenburg-Ansbach . At that time, Elector held Christian II. (1583-1611) a parliament from, whose courtiers Dietrich was one of Dove († 1639), who as chamberlain at the former Duke Johann Georg and later Elector, was in the service. On 17 September 1609, at Dietrich's intercession, Heinrich was appointed chamberlain to Duke Johann Georgs. In 1611 Johann Georg became Elector of Saxony and Heinrich was promoted to Chamberlain in 1619. In 1623 the elector appointed him chief treasurer, in 1634 governor of the offices of Torgau and Eilenburg and on August 30, 1639 he was appointed chief marshal as successor to Dietrich von Taube. He was now he personal union chief chamberlain and chief court marshal and thus held the highest court offices . After the death of Johannes Georg I in 1656, he asked for his release, which was granted by Elector Johann Georg II . In recognition of his services, he was given the title of Privy Councilor and was appointed governor of Düben .

Landowner

Elector Johann Georg I, in whose special favor Heinrich von T. was, gave him the manor Reichstädt in 1621 , who then established himself there. He also received a house in Dresden from the Elector in 1626. In 1629 he bought the Nöthnitz castle and estate , which he transferred to his wife Clara the following year. In 1637 he acquired the manor of Püchau and from 1639 he came into possession of some estates in Upper Lusatia. In 1640 the elector gave him the Berreuth manor .

family

Heinrich von T.'s parents were Ludwig Taube and Hedwig Selwig from the house in Taal. In 1620 he married Clara Schütz (1595–1652), the maid of honor at the Dresden Residenzschloss . In their 36-year marriage they had eight children: Georg; Ludwig Heinrich (1622–1636); Caspar Heinrich (1623–1646), chamberlain; Georg Heinrich; Hans Heinrich; Maria Lüttgart; Dorothea Sibylle († 1667) and Sophia. Heinrich von T. died on July 24th 1666 and was buried after the funeral in the Sophienkirche in Dresden on his manor Reichstädt.

source

  • Johann Gottfried Büchner, About the Electoral Saxon Imperial Lords of Saxony. In: Genealogical aristocratic history or gender description of those in the Chur-Sächsischen and gräntzenden lands partly formerly, but mostly still in a good bloom, oldest and most handsome noble families and from the same sprung different baronial and high-counting houses: Wherein the same antiquity , Descent, coat of arms, division of their family houses, lordships, feudal and knight-guilders, as well as life and deeds of the most famous high-nobility persons ... clearly described , Johann Gottfried Büchner, Volume 2, authors Valentin König, Johann Burkhard Mencke, Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier, Johann Gottfried Büchner, Verlag Deer, 1729, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, digitized August 16, 2010, pages 1135–1167 [2]
  • Karl August Müller (Dresden), research in the field of recent history: Elector Johann Georg the first; Volumes 1-2 of research in the field of modern history , Verlag Fleischer, 1838, original from Harvard University, digitized November 16, 2007 [3]
  • Alexander Hänel: The von Taube family in Saxony , in: Matthias Donath / Lars-Arne Dannenberg (ed.): Life pictures of the Saxon nobility, Volume II, Bernstadt ad Eigen: Via Regia Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-944104-13- 3 , pp. 9-46.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appointment = appointment
  2. ↑ Berreuth. In: Sachsens Kirchen-Galerie , Volume 1, Parts 1–37, Published 1837, Original by Harvard University, digitized Jan. 29, 2009 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Taube, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court Marshal and Governor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1666
Place of death Dresden